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All ten digits of the hand will be recorded, and both eyes will be scanned.
cashless society would be cool
Originally posted by Misterlondon
cashless society would be cool
paying for items with digital credits, using fingerprint and eye scanners.. everything you spend tracked and recorded..
kidnap and mutilation involving criminal elements.
maybe in your ideal world?
edit on 13/1/12 by Misterlondon because: (no reason given)
If they can do this in India with a huge population, how long is it going to take before they do this in other places?
Originally posted by nineix
I'm pretty sure you missed the context of that statement. You did see and comprehend the use and implication of the word 'unfortunately'? Please go back and look for the word 'unfortunately' a second time. If you look hard, you might see it.
Very simply, in an IDEAL world, a cashless society would be great. UNFORTUNATELY, this is not said ideal world.
Please attempt to restrain yourself from condescension when you essentially just said what I already said.
You're only an embarrassment to yourself in that your lack of reading comprehension is showing.
Thank you.
edit on 13-1-2012 by nineix because: (no reason given)edit on 13-1-2012 by nineix because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by AnIntellectualRedneck
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This is what is going on:
All ten digits of the hand will be recorded, and both eyes will be scanned.
Now, looking around, I think that some form of this has already been brewing for a while in India, but they never actually set all of this up and made it this far-reaching.
If they can do this in India with a huge population, how long is it going to take before they do this in other places?
The government should pay heed to the parliamentary standing committee's views and suspend the Aadhaar project. It would be a travesty to push the project in through the backdoor.
“…The Committee categorically convey their unacceptability of the National Identification Authority of India Bill, 2010…The Committee would, thus, urge the Government to reconsider and review the UID scheme.…”
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance has rejected the National Identification Authority of India (NIAI) Bill, which was meant to give a legal backing to the Aadhaar project and its aim of using biometrics to create a unique identity for every resident of India.
Sources in the Committee say the Bill has been rejected in its current form on the grounds of the project's high cost, as well as concerns regarding national security, privacy and duplication of the National Population Register's (NPR) activities. One major sticking point was reportedly the Aadhaar project's ambition to enrol every “resident” of the country, rather than every “citizen.”
Originally posted by Misterlondon
cashless society would be cool
paying for items with digital credits, using fingerprint and eye scanners.. everything you spend tracked and recorded..
kidnap and mutilation involving criminal elements.
maybe in your ideal world?
A compromise formula over identity cards for 1.2 billion Indians was worked out Friday with the government asking both the home ministry and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to collect biometric data without any duplication.
A cabinet committee on UIDAI chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh settled the turf war between home minister P. Chidambram and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and extended the mandate of UIDAI (which comes under the Planning Commission) to issue 600 million cards in 16 states and union territories.
The home ministry will cover the remaining 600 million people as part of the National Population Register (NPR) being prepared by the Registrar General of India.
Chidambaram said both UIDAI and the NPR will go ahead with their work simultaneously and try to complete the process by mid-2013.
The home minister said there could be around 5% duplication in the entire process but that is negligible.
Duplication in collection of biometric data by Nandan Nilekani-led UIDAI and the NPR and security issues involved in the process had sparked a row between the Planning Commission and the home ministry.
"The NPR will continue to capture biometric data, but if a person says he or she has taken an Aadhar (UIDAI) number, no biometric data will then be collected by the NPR," home minister P. Chidambaram said at a joint presser with Nilekani and Montek Singh Ahluwalia.
"We had raised the issue that there will be duplication in the collection of biometric ID. We had proposed that one authority will collect biometric, the second authority will take it," said Chidambaram.
After Chidambaram flagged the security issue, Nilekani said the UIDAI will do a complete review of its strategy over the next six to eight weeks.
"We will start covering the additional 400 million people only in April this year," said Nilekani.
The UID project, called Aadhar, aims to give every Indian resident a unique identity number.
The NPR would lead to a resident identity card which will culmitnate in a citizenship card.
The whole effort is aimed at using the identity so generated to improve delivery of various public services, said Chidambaram.
The UID project is primarily aimed at ensuring inclusive growth by providing a form of identity to those who do not have any identity.
It seeks to provide UID numbers to the marginalized sections of society and strengthen equity.
The cabinet committee approved an additional expenditure of Rs.5,000 crore for the project.
Around 17 crore enrolments have been completed by the UIDAI and as on Jan 20, 2012 with 11.90 crore Aadhaar numbers generated.